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Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.

4) "Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene" by @sarabpritchard.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/26/u...

#envhist #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss Volunteering revealed urban conservation’s failures as Saskatoon Grasslands lost biodiversity, accountability, and fescue prairie, prompting calls for memorialization and justice.

3) "Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss" by Carmen Gilmore - niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/r...

#yxe #urbanhistory #envhist @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada Educational War of 1812 board game represents Indigenous allies but oversimplifies environmental factors and diverse Indigenous experiences, reflecting historiographical limits.

2) "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c...

#cdnhist #envhist #boardgames

Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds Aadita Chaudhury's dissertation uses fire, phlogiston, and speculative methods to expose racial capitalism, valuation, and more-than-human knowledge worlds globally.

1) "Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds" by @aadita.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/14/c...

#envhist #wildfires #STS #fire

Our most-read articles published in January!

Links in the thread below.

#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory

Read "'Chemical Castration': White Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption" by Meg Perret from our first Succession: Queering the Environment series here: niche-canada.org/2020/06/09/c...

#queerecology #envhist #envhum #scicomm

Call for Submissions - Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration NiCHE is soliciting submissions of blog posts that help document the effects of the current United States federal administration on the discipline of environmental history and the practices of environ...

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

#envhist

‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago

Juan Fernández archipelago, Pacific Ocean: the species Arctocephalus philippi was nearly hunted into oblivion, in the 19th century

#SixthExtinction
#SeaOfSlaughter
#Anthropocene
#envhist
#MarineLifeConservation
#EnvironmentalStewardship

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social is delighted that our #UCL200 June series on 'Emergence/Emergency' will kick off with @po-dittmar.bsky.social & an interdisciplinary discussion of 'The invention of the animal'.

Bentham House, 1 June 2-5pm—email for details.

#medievalsky #Anthropocene #envhum #envhist

Check out Magdalena Stawkowski's review of Melanie Arndt's "Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of a Nuclear
Disaster," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point As species vanish and the unique ecosystem radically changes, Ukrainian scientists can only wait until it is safe to properly assess the damage

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its #dolphins past tipping point
#environment #war #Ukraine #Russia #BlackSea #envhist #pollution #research #monitoring
@tracymcveigh.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Discount code for newly released and highly anticipated East Asian #envhist books, @mmuscolino.bsky.social‘s ”Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People” AND “Revolutionary Natures”as well as @connieychiang.bsky.social’s “Nature Unfurled”

There are now two complementary essays on environmental history in Sweden and beyond, by Sverker Sörlin and Jonatan Palmblad. We look forward to the continuation of this series! #envhist

What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!

Environmental History at the Labour and Climate Teach-in In May 2025, at a teach-in, John Sandlos highlighted 1970s Yellowknife labour-Indigenous alliances against arsenic pollution, linking environmental and workers’ struggles.

"The USWA seized the moment and worked with the National Indian Brotherhood to conduct hair sample studies of mine workers and Dene children, with results showing significant exposure among these specific groups." - John Sandlos

niche-canada.org/2025/06/26/e...

#cdnhist #mininghistory #envhist

Aerial view of the Syncrude Mildred Lake site, an Athabasca oil sands mine works in northeast Alberta, Canada.

Today we have "The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands" by Felice Physioc

Originally published with @envhistnow.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/03/26/t...

#envhist #energy #oilsands #fossilfuels #alberta #cdnhist

I’m in Kansas City for #ASEH2026. I co-edit a history of technology book series for Johns Hopkins University Press. We are always looking for titles that intersect with environmental history. If you have a project, let me know and let’s talk 🙂 #envhist

Check out Tim Lehman's review of Brett Bannor's "American Sheep: A Cultural History," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #animalhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

MANECCS Call for Papers - Building Bridges / Construire des ponts Canada and the United States share one of the world’s closest, most complex relationships - marked by cooperation and competition, friendship and rivalry, common projects and contested borders.

ALERT: The deadline for Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies 2026 is extended to April 30, 2026!

Papers Building Bridges / Construire des ponts
22-24 October 2026
Lake Placid, New York

niche-canada.org/2026/02/04/m...

#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies

The Case For The Boring Bear Story Caroline Abbott examines human-bear conflict narratives, emphasizing nonviolent “boring” stories, microhistory, and challenges of applying standardized wildlife terminology to historical analysis.

Today on our site, @carolineabbott.bsky.social makes "The Case For The Boring Bear Story."

niche-canada.org/2026/03/25/t...

#bears #animalhistory #envhist #animalstudies

Ecofeminism & Postgenderism's Liberatory Effects: On Bodily Autonomy, Gender, and Environmental Justice Ecofeminism needs to move beyond binary conceptions of sex and gender. Postgenderism can help.

"A queer approach that includes transgender and non-binary people’s experiences would expand ecofeminism by breaking the constraints of essentialist expectations of bodies." @dr-ourkiya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2022/06/28/p...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology #feminism #ecofeminism

Time to play I spy #envhist in the ORD airport

#envhist

Nature's Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North This episode focuses on the legacy of the Franklin Expedition, modern Arctic exploration, and Tina Adcock’s study of southern explorers shaping northern narratives.

Our podcast, Nature's Past, hosted by @seankheraj.bsky.social, is back with a new episode after a multi-year break!

Learn about @tinaadcock.bsky.social's book in "Nature’s Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North."

niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n...

#envhist #histsci #cdnhist

"Chemical Castration": White Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption Atrazine discourse is imbued with cultural anxieties about the extinction of normative masculinity in an increasingly toxic world

"Popular-science coverage of Hayes et al. (2010) appeals to cultural disgust for male bodies that transgress gender norms and to cultural anxieties about transgender people 'passing' as cisgender." - Meg Perret

niche-canada.org/2020/06/09/c...

#envhist #scicomm #queerecology #science #envhum

To all my #envhist friends en route to @aseh.bsky.social's annual meeting, I hope you have a great time in Kansas City!

(Sightseeing and dining recommendations are available upon request...)

#histsci #histSTM

@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social's reading list features an article by @palmblad.bsky.social, published in our latest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, along with other exciting texts. #envhum #envhist

Check out Kevin O'Brien's review of Christopher Steck's "A Heaven for Animals: A Catholic Case and Why It Matters," published in 2025 by Georgetown University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #enhum #animalstudies #envphil #envhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

“When Did Humans First Discover America, Ulrike Prinz?” This podcast discusses the work of the archaeologist Niède Guidon and the traces of the first humans in the Americas.

Another @riffreporter.bsky.social podcast is now available on the Portal. Ulrike Prinz presents the research of Niède Guidon and its implications for understanding the first humans in the Americas: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/when-did....

#envhum #envhist #rockpaintings #archaeology